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Philips Fidelio X2HR Over-Ear Open-Air Headphone - Black

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Pros

The open back design greatly improves soundstage. I'm very impressed with the overall clarity and expansiveness of the sound! The open backs allow for a true open soundstage, while also allowing me to not overheat as much.

They have a fun v shape with full and deep bass, pleasing mids and treble and are never harsh or fatiguing. They react well to an equalizer if you want to spice things up. Khz and 8.

For me, it serves it's purpose. These headphones are perfect for the latter scenarios. Highly recommended. A very enjoyable headphone.

The build is exquisite and feels very sturdy, it's pretty much all metal but despite this is very light. The plastic does a feel a bit cheap but doesn't feel like breaking anytime soon. Build quality looks very good, but i'm aware of quality issues wi... Read More

The sound quality, well to my ears, is alright. Yes the have a v shaped sound signature, but it is not exaggerated. The cord it comes with is of decent quality! The expert reviewers say the l2 has a mostly neutral sound signature.

Cons

This excludes if the streaming service offers a lossless audio streaming option. Lossless audio streaming uses considerably more data.

The screws break easily and are not so easily replaced. These are not meant to be repaired, in order to remove the cans there is a ton of really hard glue you have to remove to separate the cans from the band. Phillips said to take it to a hardware st... Read More

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Quality

Build quality:these headphones feel really solid, and i'm confident that the headband can handle a ton of use.

Also, these headphones are built like tanks, they're really sturdy and feel high quality versus other plasticy headphones.

The one real con is gaming, they're pretty awful with sound imaging so it's a little difficult to tell where footsteps are coming from.

5mm female end does not fit snugly so when i used the adapter for the first time, i was missing the left audio channel.

Price

I spent a while bouncing from these to my hifiman arya organic ($1,300) using an smsl m500 mk3 and couldn’t believe what an ama... Read More

Tried cans 4x the price and settled with x2hr.

They punch way above there price point.

00 i have spent on audio ever.

Packaging/appearance

Out of the box they were nice, but some of the upper midrange notes were really shrill (really comes out on piano-heavy songs).

Competitiveness

Open back headphone sounds different and better compare to closed back in my opinion, and at this price and quality its an amazing offer.

Compared to my cheap gaming and bluetooth headphones, i'm able to pick out a wider range of instruments and sounds in music.

I tried out sennheiser, beyerdynamic, epos, and many other brands.

Now if you have cash for an amazing pair and are looking for an amazing “endgame” set, just go straight for the arya organic an... Read More

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This product had a total of 8,007 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 27 2024.